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"It should have gone out with a fricking bang that shook the world, and it was more like a whimper." Michael Anthony on his Van Halen regret

Former Van Halen bassist Michael Anthony wishes it had ended differently

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“Sometimes I think, ‘This has become so big that I can’t handle this monster any more.’ I have some trouble comprehending it”: How Nightwish became the planet’s most epic symphonic metal band with Endless Forms Most Beautiful

Nightwish endured line-up changes and self-doubt to swing for the fences with 2015’s Endless Forms Most Beautiful

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Amorphis drop first new music from upcoming album Borderland with anthemic new single Light And Shadow

Finnish prog metallers Amorphis will release their new album, Borderland, in September

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“We went on our lunch break and when we got back, Tony had come up with the Paranoid riff. It was literally 25 minutes of work. People went nuts about it!”: How Black Sabbath made Paranoid, the iconic album that rubber-stamped their greatness

Black Sabbath’s debut album laid down the blue print for heavy metal but Paranoid kicked it

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Black Sabbath and Ozzy Osbourne's farewell gig in Birmingham next month will be livestreamed globally: find out how you can watch the greatest metal show ever

Black Sabbath's history-making Back To The Beginning show is to be made available for pay-per-view worldwide

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The 12 new metal songs you need to hear this week

Start your summer right with these new noises from Sabaton, Killswitch Engage, Battle Beast and more, then vote for your favourite

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Babymetal name their favourite and most surprising collaborations on new album Metal Forth

The collabs-heavy effort comes out on August 8

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"Me and Ozzy were a team. I never thought, 'What about me?'" We chat to Sharon Osbourne about growing up in the music industry, her "confrontational" father, feuding with Iron Maiden and Billy Corgan and a whole load more

Sharon Osbourne looks back on a 40-plus year career in the music industry

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Watch Creeper preview their forthcoming album Sanguivore II: Mistress Of Death with punky new single Headstones, which explores "the dark perils of rock ’n’ roll, sins of the flesh, and pure evil"

"This is the band at its most over-the-top and unashamedly dramatic." William Von Ghould

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Watch Turnstile perform two songs on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon ahead of today's release of new album Never Enough

Turnstile Summer has officially begun

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"There were multiple shows that I would show up for fully black-out drunk. I don’t remember them." From addiction and alcohol abuse to parenthood and poetry, here's everything The Used's Bert McCracken has learned

Bert McCracken has lived one hell of a life, that's for sure

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"The build up to the album has reached its zenith and you are elevated to the top of the soaring tomb." Katatonia share new video for Wind Of No Change

Katatonia release their new album Nightmares As Extensions Of The Waking State tomorrow and share new video for Wind Of No Change

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Slipknot’s Jim Root once asked Diamond Rowe of nu metal up-and-comers Tetrarch for guitar lessons: “I was like, ‘OK, dude, come on!’”

Rowe’s nu metal revivalists have also been endorsed by members of Fear Factory and Hatebreed

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Does a new-look Katatonia mean a bold new era? Of course not, but Nightmares As Extensions Of The Waking State is a gloomily gorgeous listen all the same

The first Katatonia album without Anders Nyström is just about what you'd expect, but it's still very, very good

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"Five middle-aged, slightly hungover geezers miming along to something." Opeth share new band performance video of §1

Swedish prog metallers Opeth share a performance video for The Last Will And Testament's opening track §1

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“It still doesn’t feel real that we’re supporting Slayer”: Neckbreakker released one of 2024’s most exciting metal debut albums. Now they’re about to live their biggest dream.

Neckbreakker are making serious waves in the European metal scene – and with good reason

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The biggest tour in the history of deathcore? Slaughter To Prevail announce 2026 European tour with Suicide Silence, Dying Fetus and reforming Annotations Of An Autopsy

The Russian-American aggressors will play the UK and the European mainland from January to February next year with an impressive list of support acts

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"We went to abandoned cemeteries at night, stole everything we could find." Black magic, human skulls and Aleister Crowley – the twisted story of Tobias Forge’s favourite cult horror-metal band, Death SS

They were as infamous as they were influential, inspiring everyone from Venom to Ghost. This is how Death SS became a cult metal legend

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“It’s just not as fun, unfortunately”: Wolfgang Van Halen reveals he doesn’t listen to Van Halen anymore

Though Wolfgang was a member of Van Halen with his father Eddie and uncle Alex, he struggles to listen to the hard rock revolutionaries’ music nowadays

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"Shave my head, let’s just go for it!" How Hollywood superstar Matt Damon channelled his inner Henry Rollins to make a surprise cameo as an obnoxious punk rock singer in cult teen comedy EuroTrip

As a major Hollywood player, Matt Damon didn't need to take a bit part as a snotty punk in EuroTrip, but his reason for doing so was sweet

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This Black Sabbath song has “one of the best riffs of all time”, according to Employed To Serve’s Sammy Urwin

Employed To Serve’s co-founder says a classic cut from Master Of Reality contains one of the best guitar parts ever written

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"Wild Ones isn't just a song, it's a statement": Watch the first footage of the reunited Alice Cooper Band recording together

Premiere: The video for Alice Cooper's Wild Ones shows the band working together in the studio

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"Hardcore's answer to Nirvana's Nevermind." Turnstile's Never Enough is a landmark record for alternative music and an instant, undeniable classic

With their fourth album, Turnstile have confirmed themselves as the most important and daring band to have emerged from the hardcore scene in decades

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A new photo exhibition featuring stunning life-size portraits of some of the most iconic guitars in rock history is opening in London next week

Images of guitars owned by Paul McCartney, Kirk Hammett, Dave Grohl, Noel Gallagher and more will be displayed at the Scale exhibition

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Lemmy’s hometown may get new music venue in memory of late Motörhead leader

Weeks after the city got a Lemmy statue, plans for Burslem to become the site of a music hall dedicated to Motörhead’s mainman have been revealed

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